The Position of Sayyid Abd al-Hussain Dastgheeb on the Pahlavi rule 1925 -1979

Abstract

After sayyid Abd al-Hussein Dastgheib is one of the intellectual and religious figures in Iran who has taken a position opposing the procedures and laws of Pahlavi rule since Reza shah Pahlavi ascended the Iranian throne in 1925 AD and issued rulings that touched the religious life of the Iranian people ,which were met with strong opposition by the clergy headed by sayyid Abd al- Hussein Dastgheib lncluding a law he issued in 1926 AD ,which represented the clerics abandoning their official uniforms and the abolition of the lslamic veil for lranian women ,as the period ( 1941-1979    ) witnessed the rule of his son Muhammad Reze Pahlavi whose reign witnessed the continuation of the conflict with the religious establishment and Sayyid Abd al-Hussein Dastghib which continued until the Islamic revolution in the year 1979 AD when sayyid Abd al- Hussein Dastghib represented sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini in Shiraz and a number of Iranian cities and worked to reject the Pahlavi politics through his enthusiastic and jihadist sermons which were popular among lranian youth from lranian cities in general and Shiras in particular and this what made him persecuted by the govermment